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Richard Hodgson (1855-1905) was an Australian-born psychical researcher and key figure in the early Society for Psychical Research, known for his investigations of spiritualist claims and his pioneering studies on illusion, deception, and human perception. Dr. Matthew L. Tompkins is currently a researcher at the Choice Blindness Lab at Lund University's Department of Cognitive Science, where he applies techniques drawn from mentalism and performance magic to study how people perceive-and mis-perceive-emerging technologies in neuroscience and artificial intelligence. A semi-professional magician, he earned his DPhil in Experimental Psychology from the University of Oxford, where his doctoral work, Observations on Invisibility, explored historical the historical and contemporary relationships between magicians and scientific researchers.
Matthew Tompkins has performed a great service for experimental psychologists and, indeed, for all curious minds by drawing attention to these two papers, largely forgotten gems from the early days of psychical research. As his Foreword clearly spells out, Richard Hodgson and S. J. Davey's investigations of recall for faked séances foreshadowed psychological insights into the nature of perception and memory that were not fully appreciated by the scientific community until around a century later. Full recognition of the significance of this groundbreaking work is long overdue. Prof. Christopher French, Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Founder of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit at Goldsmiths, University of London, Author of The Science of Weird Shit (MIT Press, 2024)
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